Date Truffles recipe | Easy no cook date truffles

Date truffles with video

Date truffles is a simple no cook recipe made using 3 main ingredients, dates,cocoa powder and nuts. It is more similar to our Indian dry fruits ladoo. Valentines day is even more special to us as it is our son Varun’s birthday. This year he is celebrating his 12th birthday. When i was thinking of what to post for today,this idea of dates truffles came to my mind. Last week we went to India for my sister’s son Upanayanam(sacred thread ceremony) Generally bakshnams like murukku,ladoo will be distributed to all the relatives during weddings and upapanayam in our tradition. But she wanted to make it healthy and gave a Dates packet for all of them. I loved that idea of giving dates and she packed few extra packets for me too.So i thought i will try this dates truffles recipe for valentines day. You can also pack this dates truffles for kids snack box too. Check out my

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Date Truffles recipe

  Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : Nil |Makes: 11

     Dates  20
     Cocoa powder  3 tblsp
     Walnut*  1/2 cup
     Desiccated coconut  1/4 cup + 2tblsp for rolling
     Pistachio  powdered  2 tblsp (for rolling)
     Sprinkles  1-2 tblsp (for rolling)
* You can use almonds or pistachios or macadamia nuts or pecan nuts.

Method:

• In a mixer jar add dates,walnuts,cocoa powder and 1/4 cup desiccated coconut.
• Pulse this for 10- 20 seconds.
• Transfer this to a wide plate.
• Take a portion of the mixture and make it into a lemon sized ball.
• Roll this over pistachio powder or cocoa powder or desiccated coconut or sprinkles.
• The sprinkles i used didn’t stick well as i expected.
• Store this in a dry container.
• This stays well in room temperature for 1 day and in the refrigerator for a week

                               Video of how to make Date truffles recipe 

Method with step wise pictures:

• In a mixer jar add dates,walnuts,cocoa powder and 1/4 cup desiccated coconut.
• Pulse this for 10- 20 seconds.

• Transfer this to a wide plate.
• Take a portion of the mixture and make it into a lemon sized ball.

• Roll this over pistachio powder or cocoa powder or desiccated coconut or sprinkles.

• The sprinkles i used didn’t stick well as i expected.
• Store this in a dry container.

• This stays well in room temperature for 1 day and in the refrigerator for a week.

Notes:

1. I used walnuts,you can use any nuts of your choice.
2. Instead of cocoa powder you can grind few chocolate chip cookies also.
3. You can roll the dates truffles on toasted sesame seeds,chocolate sprinkles or coarsely ground peanuts or almonds.